Katie Campbell
Online Editor/Reporter
About
Katie joined KUOW's online team as an editor and reporter in 2024, after serving three years as senior producer of the local Morning Edition program. In addition to reporting on the news of the day, she brings readers some levity with a weekly news quiz and curates the KUOW Book Club. (Get her literary recommendations and analysis by signing up for the book club newsletter!)
Katie previously served listeners in Phoenix at member-station KJZZ. As an Arizona Capitol reporter, she reported on a statewide teacher strike and investigated two Arizona state representatives who, ultimately, departed the state House amid scandal. She also covered numerous elections, from rural county races to U.S. Senate contests and Arizona's role as a key battleground state in 2020. Katie's reporting was featured on an award-winning political podcast, which she launched and hosted for the Arizona Capitol Times.
She is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism, a P-Patch gardener, and an auntie to two wonderful little terrors.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Stories
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Health
Retired nurse remembers how 'everything changed' after Roe v. Wade
Suzy Palmer began her nursing career in Chicago before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. It was there that she saw how "desperation" damaged lives — both of her pregnant patients and their children.
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Education
'Forgive yourself.' Advice from a Seattle-area high school graduate
Words can't capture all it means to everyone who will be crossing the graduation stage. But one student from Seattle's Roosevelt High School gave it a shot in a recent column for the student newspaper.
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Politics
Washington voters' role in gun laws: ballots vs bills
The U.S. is once again mourning dozens of lives lost in several mass shootings just last month. And because these events are all too common now in our country, the debates that have followed have been predictable.
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Politics
Has Seattle learned to 'care sustainably' two years after George Floyd's murder?
Two years ago this week, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police. His death triggered protests and calls for police reform all across the nation. But what came of those promises? And what about issues not tied to policing?
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Environment
Honest trail reviews for hikers with disabilities: Travel For Good
Syren Nagakyrie felt excluded from outdoor recreation for much of their life. They told KUOW that trail developers seem to overlook how people with disabilities interact with the outdoors.
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Washington Indigenous families still living with the 'very deliberate effort to wipe us out'
The U.S. Interior Department has set out to document abusive boarding schools that once targeted Indigenous tribes, their cultures and their children. A first-of-its-kind report from the agency's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative puts the extent of that abuse in black and white.
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Environment
The restored Elwha River, 'hidden gem' of the Olympic Peninsula: Travel For Good
At the north end of the Olympic Peninsula, trucks carrying massive trees rumble through the town of Port Angeles. Humans here have dramatically altered the old-growth forests that ring the snowy peaks of the mountains nearby. But residents are working to preserve what they can of this wilderness.
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Environment
Prescribed burns are back in Washington state. Why?
Washington state is conducting a prescribed burn for the 2022 season for the first time in about 18 years.
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Environment
'April showers bring May showers': Earth Day with WA state Climatologist Nick Bond
Here in the Pacific Northwest, every day feels like is Earth Day.
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Politics
Activists, environment, and midterms: President Biden in Seattle
President Joe Biden is visiting Seattle for Earth Day.